Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.